Pushkin Library (Samarkand), 136–37
Putilov Works (Leningrad), 255
Rabin, Yitzhak, x
Race discrimination in United States, 14–15, 154, 177, 182
Rakosi, Matyas, 205
Randall, Francis, 3
The Red Sell (documentary), 277
Reich, Walter, 62
Religion: in Hungary, 205–06; in Soviet Union, 118, 167, 190–92. See also Islam; Jews
Religious discrimination, at City College, 14–15. See also Anti-Semitism
Rublev, Andrei, 167
Rumor mill, 72–73, 199
Rupp, Adolph, 10, 18–20, 23
Russian Chronicles, 118
Russian language, 25, 34, 37, 139–40
Russian Museum (Leningrad), 116, 262
Russian Orthodox Church, 190–92
Russians: access to truth, 199–203, 205, 259; American poets and, 249–50; commitment to party line, 180–82, 193–95, 200–02, 226–28, 241–43, 251–52; on communism, 77–78, 180–82, 270; on Hungary uprisings and Soviet response, 208–09; indifference to politics, 59; inferiority complex of, 102–03, 193; interest in United States, 143–45, 154, 170–71, 177–81, 245–46; Kalb’s impressions of, 269–70; literacy and thinking, effect of, 270; peasants’ place in society, 195, 198, 270; in transition between “old and new,” 270; true proletariat, experience at Leningrad bar with, 255–57. See also Students
Salisbury, Harrison, 125
Saltykov-Shchedrin Library (Leningrad), xii, 237–38, 243–48, 253, 262–63
Samarkand, 131–46; Friedrich Engels Cotton Collective Farm, 141–45; new part, 135–36; old part, 131–35, 146; Uzbek State University, 138–39
Sandburg, Carl, 249
Schorr, Dan, 92–93, 217–21, 275, 276
Schwartz, Harry, 14, 36, 275
Sergius, Saint, 190
Shevchenko, Taras, 117
Shulman, Marshall, 43–45, 220
Silk Road, 132
Simonov, Konstantin, 231
Sino-Soviet alliance, 277
Slavophiles, 259
Smith, LeRoy, 22
Snitching on critics of state, party, or Stalin, 189
Sochi, 179–85
Socialism’s coming triumph over capitalism, 226–27, 241, 252, 260
Socialist realism, 230, 236, 252
Socolow, Sandy, 15
Sollazzo, Salvatore, 22, 24
Soviet collapse: fragility of Soviet nation, 185; seeds of, in “year of the thaw,” x, 55, 104
Soviet press, Kalb’s job to translate, 45–47. See also specific newspapers
Spasso House. See U.S. embassy
Spivey, Bill, 18, 23
Stalin, Joseph: anniversary of death of, 57–58; declaring his rule as essential, 210; denunciation of, xi–xii, 66–70, 74, 89, 97, 197, 265–66; Georgians holding in reverence, 75, 176–79; Gorky’s Lower Depths and, 239; legacy of, 61–64, 265; Lenin’s recommendation for dismissal of, 90; life of, 168–69; paintings and photos of, 135, 138, 140, 168; personality cult of, 75, 87, 112, 127, 140, 178, 187, 232; at Putilov Works (Leningrad), 255; removal of images and name of, 75–76, 178, 197; reporting anyone who criticized, 189; Sochi as favorite resort of, 179, 182; statues in Tashkent, 130; tomb of his mother in Tbilisi, 174–75; Trotsky vs., 89–90. See also De-Stalinization’s effects
Stalina, S. I., 60
State Department assignment: arrival in Moscow, 50–52; offer and acceptance, 35, 43–44; preparation for, 44–47; security briefing prior to going to Moscow, 47–50. See also Joint Press Reading Service (JPRS)
State Museum (Moscow), 81–82
Stern, Isaac, 72, 92, 252
St. Nicholas Cathedral (Leningrad), 238
Stolypin, Pyotr, 259
St. Petersburg, 237. See also Leningrad
Students: commitment to communism, 76, 226–28; comparing Georgian to Russian students, 176–77; daily wall newspaper based on BBC reporting, 224; Dudintsev’s Not by Bread Alone and, 232–34; idealism of, 196–98; Murrow interviewing Kalb about, 275; Pravda criticizing students for bourgeois ideology, 224; questioning Soviet policies in year of the thaw, 76–77, 86–88, 105, 196–97, 199–203, 222–24, 259
Suez Canal crisis, 212–15, 242
Suslov, Mikhail, 207
Suzdal, travel to, 111–13
Tamerlane (Timur), 124, 129, 132, 134, 136, 137, 141
Tang (U.S. ambassador’s butler), 99
Tashkent, 124–31, 153–55
TASS: on communist leaders’ meeting (January 1–4, 1957), 240–41; on 20th Party Congress, 61
Taubman, William, 209
Tbilisi, 165–79; as capital of Georgia, 167; Chavchavadze Desyatilyetka (school), 167–68; comparing Georgian to Russian students, 176–77; Czech tourists in, 172–73; Georgians expressing anti-Soviet opinions in, 172–73, 176, 177; Mtskheta excursion, 166–67; student uprisings in, 170–72; trolley ride to mountain top, 174–75
Tbilisi State University, 175–79
Tchaikovsky, Peter, 114–15
Thaw of 1956, xi–xii, 54–55, 265–69; American tourists in, 184; Eastern Europeans seizing upon, 204; examples of potential of, 188–89; free speech among young Russians during, 76; retreat from, 187–89, 204–05, 229–30, 270–71; seeds of future Soviet demise sewn in, x, 55, 104. See also De-Stalinization’s effects; Students
Thorez, Maurice, 62
Tito, Marshal, 94–95, 204–06, 211
Tolstoy, Leo, 114
Traveclass="underline" air travel, 115, 124–25; to Baku, 157–64; to Central Asia, 123–55; to dacha in Moscow suburbs, 111; internal passports needed for, 245–46; to Kiev, 115–22; to Klin, 114–15; to Leningrad, 237–63; limits on, 110; to Mongolia (1962) as news correspondent, 277; notification to Foreign Ministry from U.S. embassy, 110; to Sochi, 179–85; to Tbilisi, 165–79; to Vladimir, Suzdal, and Bogolyubovo, 111–13; to Yasnaya Polyana, 114; to Zagorsk, 113–14, 190. See also Central Asia
Tretyakov Gallery, 75
Troitsky–Sergieva Lavra monastery, 190
Trotsky, Leon, 77, 83, 89–90, 197–98
Truman, Harry, x, 12, 120
Truth: Gorky’s Lower Depths and, 239; historians’ search for, 154; Pravda’s reporting and, 141, 199; Russians’ desire to get truthful news reporting, 199–203, 205, 259
Tubeteiki (Uzbek hats), 135
20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 60–70, 168, 231, 265. See also De-Stalinization’s effects; Khrushchev, Nikita
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 115–16
Ulam, Adam, 35
Ulugh Beg, 133–34, 148
United Nations: Hungary situation and, 212; in Suez Canal crisis, 212–13
United States: fingerprinting policy, 92, 177, 246; JPRS funding from, 45; reaction to Soviet crushing Hungarian rebellion, 212; Russians’ assumptions about, 177–78, 180–81, 259–60; as subject of Soviet interest, 143–45, 154, 170–71, 177–81, 245–46; in Suez Canal crisis, 212; Voshchenkov on evils of, 241
University of Kentucky basketball team, 10, 17–22, 23
Uprisings. See Hungary; Poland
U.S. embassy: demonstrations over Suez Canal at, 213–14; party celebrating July 4th, 98–104. See also Bohlen, Charles
U-2 incident (1960), 277
Uvarov, Sergei Semyonovich, Kalb’s research on, 79–86, 220, 222; difficulty in gaining clearance in Russian institutions, 76, 82–85; in Leningrad, 238, 243–48, 253; microfilming of primary sources, 253–54, 262–63; Russians’ questioning Kalb about, 79, 80–81, 84, 249–50; Russians’ reaction to Kalb’s difficulties, 258–59; as subject of Kalb’s Ph.D. dissertation, 52. See also specific libraries